according to their website[1], the founder of the company also was the creator of the name tabasco Not sure if their website is the most reliable source of suc

according to their website[1], the founder of the company also was the creator of the name tabasco Not sure if their website is the most reliable source of such information, but thats what it claims. Actually, i looked further into it, and found an article[2] with this passage (the whole article is pretty interesting): >And on July 29, 1918, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Gaidry v. McIlhenny Co., 253 F. 613, recognized McIlhenny as the exclusive holder of the right to sell pepper sauce with the mark “Tabasco.” In short, the court found that despite the geographic descriptiveness of the word Tabasco, it had acquired a secondary meaning to the public as an source identifier, namely identifying McIllhenny’s red pepper sauce. [1]http://www.tabasco.com/mcilhenny-company/about/ http://www.tabasco.com/mcilhenny-company/about/ [2]http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2007/10/story-of-tabasco-trademark.html http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2007/10/story-of-tabas...